The governor of Kaduna state, Mallam Nasir El Rufai recently appeared on a network interview with four local radio stations in the state, namely, Radio Nigeria, Kaduna Tate Media Corporation, Nagarta Radio and Freedom Radio, where he spoke on a wide range of issues affecting his state. He spoke on why some members of his party are opposed to his administration; why he sacked a senior official of his administration for awarding fictitious contracts and why he is not bothered about re-election for now.

Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue state in this interview spoke about the health condition of ailing President Muhammadu Bauhari whom he recently visited in London, his alleged ownership of a snake farm in Makurdi, the agitation for the restructuring of the country and others.

Prior to my departure in 1976, my father spoke to me and said, if you go to America and say you are the son of a General in the Nigerian Army and under that pretext misbehave, I will never intervene, and if it means going to jail that is it for you

HOW did you get into insurance, was that your chosen career from the beginning?
I didn’t want to study insurance and I in fact rejected studying insurance. I wanted to go to Ahmadu Bello University because I was a very staunch Muslim student at secondary school and at HSC levels. So because of Islam, I wanted to go to ABU to study accounting and it was in the days of direct entry – before JAMB.

The current generation of Nigerians who are politically active and informed can never take PDP serious

The United Nations recommends that 26 per cent of a member country’s budget should be allocated to education but Nigeria consistently falls below this level

Alhaji Yusuf Garba Ali is many things to many people. He was the chairman of the Nigerian Football Association, a one Managing Director of Unipetrol and later the chairman of the then All Nigeria Peoples Party.

Business mogul, Olorogun Moses Taiga, is the President General of Urhobo Progress Union (UPU) Worldwide, unarguably, the umbrella socio-culturalorganisation for all Urhobo groups.

Dr. Jay Samuels is the interim National Chairman of Alliance for New Nigeria, ANN, a political association seeking to be registered by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. In this interview, he speaks on some topical national issues.

My background of being born in a charity hospital in rural Louisiana and rising to be President of Ford Foundation is a story about investment in human capital development and investing in the potential ities of a young poor boy

He also condemns the PDP in Edo state for accusing Governor Godwin Obaseki led administration of planning to sell some government parastaltals, explaining that the governor only intends to privatize the Special hospital in Benin City to give the best health care to the people of the state.

Hon. Oladipo Olaitan, the National Financial Secretary of Afenifere, the apex Yoruba socio-cultural body was at the inception of the Fourth Republic, the leader of the Alliance for Democracy in the House of Representatives, a prime position that gave him opportunity into the affairs of the nation at that time.

Managing Director, Niger Delta Development Commission, Mr Nsima Ekere in this interview with selected journalists in Rivers state speaks on effort by the new board of the commission to change the narrative of NDDC as a corrupt institution.

Another person who influenced my thinking was Ebenezer Babatope, who I met as a final year medical student; it was when politicians were imprisoned and he was kept at Jos Teaching Hospital

The whole idea was to create a Marina development better than any other; hence our choice of land within Eko Atlantic